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Webb Catches Supermassive Black Hole Feeding from Cosmic Gas Streams


New images of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4696 from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal gas filaments funneling material into a spinning disk around a supermassive black hole 800 light-years across.

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